After hearing Medivh call him useless, the Marquis's flabby face twisted and turned, clearly greatly angered, but he still wore a hypocritical and fawning smile, like an ugly wild boar, flattering, "Please rest assured, Sir Mage, I will absolutely not report this matter to the Council, nor will I ask any Magic Guild to intervene! Let's just consider this matter closed, and we'll let bygones be bygones from now on."
"But I'm afraid you won't keep your word ~"
Medivh sighed, looking at the Marquis's aged face.
"Then you say, what will it take for you to be at ease?!"
The Marquis looked up at Medivh and continued to ask.
"Only when you die will I be at ease."
The moment Medivh's words fell, the sky suddenly became covered with dark clouds.
From time to time, lightning flashed and thunder roared!
"Sir Mage, please believe me!"
"I really won't retaliate, I'm telling the truth..."
The Marquis panicked. He looked up at Medivh and spoke in alarm.
"Hehe..."
Medivh merely sneered at the words. The Marquis didn't retaliate against him only because he lacked the ability. If it were a weaker person, they would probably have been finished long ago.
Over the years, countless townspeople had been bullied by the Marquis and his knights. In terms of both reason and emotion, this Marquis should... die!
"Boom!"
This time, no one slowed the meteorite!
Under the terrified and despairing gazes of the Marquis and his knights, a meteorite more than ten times larger than the previous one fell from the sky, completely smashing through the entire Marquis's mansion!
It became a huge deep pit.
That wasn't all; the immense force went straight underground.
It triggered the abundant underground water resources beneath the Marquis's mansion.
Accompanied by the gushing springs, the Marquis's mansion transformed into a huge lake at a visible speed!
Now that the Marquis was dead, turning his mansion into a freshwater lake and contributing to the surrounding towns could also be considered accumulating merit for him.
After doing all this, Medivh disappeared from the sky.
Medivh returned to the back mountain of the town and saw August, whose brows were tightly furrowed, deep in thought.
"August, what are you thinking?!"
Medivh leaned in front of August and asked.
"Father, I read many reports written by the Marquis when he was young. He dedicated so much to the people of this territory when he was young!"
"I'm wondering if that Marquis, from being a lord who loved his people and children, turned into this current state because he also had difficulties?!"
August frowned; kind people are like this, they like to think from others' perspectives, their empathy is super strong, and because of this, they always live in pain.
"No matter what he did when he was young, once it's rotten, it's rotten after all."
Medivh looked at August, a faint smile on his face. He gently stroked the boy's head and softly educated him, "I once witnessed the greatest magic genius in this world fall into a Black Wizard who intended to destroy the world!"
"I also saw brave heroes who stood up for humanity and fought against dragons! Turn into black dragon kings who sought to destroy humanity. No matter how talented and brilliant they were when they were young, no matter how many achievements they made! But wrong is wrong, and while merit can offset some faults, a truly grave mistake, once committed, cannot be corrected. (Old Precht said this when educating Natsu and others.)"
Medivh shook his head, not to mention that in this world, the phenomenon of dragon slayers becoming evil dragons happened constantly! Even in his previous life, there were many people in history who were incredibly talented in their early stages but later seemed to have their souls taken, performing foolish actions, such as the famous 'Half-Emperor of All Ages,' making people wish these individuals had died decades earlier.
"I understand."
August's eyes lit up; he seemed to have gained an epiphany at this moment.
"All these rotten guys, I will correct them."
August gently clenched his fists, and a vigorous righteous aura burst forth from him.
However, no matter how Medivh looked at it, he felt that the righteous aura on August seemed to be somewhat evil.
"Haha..."
"Those things are still too early for August!"
"If it weren't for the sudden incident, Father would have preferred you to have a happy childhood."
Medivh said, picking August up from the ground.
"Father, what are you doing?!"
August asked, somewhat confused by this.
"Today's training ends here. Take a bath and get some rest early."
"Speaking of which, I haven't told you a fairy tale in a long time..."
"Today, I'll tell you your favorite story: 'Pirate' King Luffy battles 'Hokage' Naruto, ultimately causing a spacetime anomaly that forces the high school student Ichigo Kurosaki, who doesn't want to become a'Shinigami,' to inherit the Wandenreich and become Yhwach's chosen successor, uniting the three realms with Sosuke Aizen."
Medivh held August and walked towards the artificial hot spring he had blasted out using Super Magic.
"That's great!"
Young August shouted excitedly after hearing Medivh's words.
And so...
In these calm and warm days.
Time passed by minute by minute.
Three years passed in the blink of an eye.
The time came to X706.
During these three years, Medivh, having earned enough money, closed his Magic Item Shop in Violet Town!
On the day of the closing, some cried, some laughed.
Those who cried were the ones who made a living by reselling Medivh's magic items; their good days seemed to be over.
Those who laughed were naturally Medivh's competitors.
Although Medivh never considered these people his rivals.
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